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title: "Speckled Tanager"
description: "Ixothraupis guttata — Birds. The speckled tanager (Ixothraupis guttata) is a medium-sized passerine bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/speckled-tanager
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Speckled Tanager

> Ixothraupis guttata — Birds. The speckled tanager (Ixothraupis guttata) is a medium-sized passerine bird.

- Scientific name: *Ixothraupis guttata*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 905
- Wikidata: [Q58295004](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58295004)
- iNaturalist taxon: [558570](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/558570)

## Names

- en: Speckled Tanager
- de: Fleckentangare
- es: Tangara moteada
- fr: Calliste tiqueté

## Countries with the most observations

CR (434), CO (174), VE (143), PA (111), TT (9)

## Summary

The speckled tanager (Ixothraupis guttata) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It is a resident breeder in Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname and the north of Brazil. There are also sight records from French Guiana.
It is probably a close relative of the spotted tanager (I. punctata) which replaces it to the south. These two species are generally presumably to be fully allopatric, but may actually be parapatric: in 1998 a speckled tanager was found in the Serranía de los Churumbelos (Colombia), just about 160 km (99 mi) north of where spotted tanagers are known to occur.
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Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_tanager

## Photo

![Speckled Tanager](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckled-tanager/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339452431

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckled-tanager?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).